Poll: Do You Do Link Exchanges With Competitors?

Mar 30, 2011 - 9:15 am 9 by
Filed Under Link Building

link exchangesA WebmasterWorld thread asks other link builders if they would ever do a link exchange with a competitor.

Typically, you would think you'd never want to link over to a competitor. In fact, we ran a poll on this type of topic back in 2009 and most SEOs said they would not link to a competitor. But one person said it depends, the WebmasterWorld response so far read:

If it benefits your end user, why not? Unless its a fierce competitor selling your widget for half the price you sell it for always get the link anytime its relevant and benefits your end user.

Try not to make linking decisions based on how you think its going to affect your site's search rankings.

Please take my anonymous poll and let me know if you would exchange links with competitors. I am not simply asking if you would link to competitors, I asked that already. I am not asking if you would exchange links with a competitor.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Image credit, Stephen on Flickr.

 

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